Tags archives: Silicon Valley

According to a recent blog post from Brad Feld, the official results are in for "entrepreneurial density" in American communities -- and his stomping ground of Boulder, Colorado is pretty close to the top.
Compiled by Richard Florida at The Atlant[...]

Jonathan Oringer, 39, has become the first billionaire of Silicon Alley, according to Bloomberg.
Silicon Alley -- for those new to the clubby terminology of tech journalism -- refers to the New York City tech community as a whole.
Oringer i[...]

A popular thread at Quora last week documented some never-before-revealed anecdotes and random run-ins with Steve Jobs. Surprisingly, there aren't any crazy horror stories akin to Erin Caton's experience with Jobs cutting her in the sushi line -- Job[...]

“Everybody knows this [Emotional Intelligence] thing is good for their career,” Google employee and meditation teacher Chade-Meng Tan tells Wired. “And every company knows that if their people have [Emotional Intelligence], they’re gonna make a shitl[...]

According to Bloomberg, the NSA Prism scandal is not the first time technology entrepreneurs have been coerced into bed with the U.S. government. Silicon Valley, in turns out, was essentially incubated by American tax dollars right up until the end o[...]

According to Paleofuture, Paul Baran was a pioneering engineer whose work on inter-networked terminals and founding of the Institute of the Future helped pave the way for Silicon Valley. He also predicted way before anyone else that software engineer[...]

Miley Cyrus has been pulling out all the tricks for her latest single, 'We Can't Stop': Twitter beefs, twerking videos, and the latest, a visit to the 'tech mothership' of Silicon Valley this past Monday.
Lil' Miss Cyrus had a busy day of meetings[...]

It's been a real 'soul-searching' past few weeks for the denizens of Silicon Valley. George Packer made a spectacle of the Valley's 'rich white-kid problems' in the New Yorker, and accused the region of elitism. Elon Musk made everyone second-guess j[...]

PostMates is a courier service which guarantees delivery of ANYTHING within 1 hour or less, and after a successful San Francisco launch, the company has come to Manhattan with over 50 couriers in the Flatiron district, according to Forbes.
Fees fo[...]

According to AdWeek, Videology -- helping brands and publishers manage Web video campaigns -- has raised a $60 million Series D financing round led by Catalyst Investors, and with participation from New Enterprise Associates, Valhalla Partners, Comca[...]

According to Politico, Republicans are desperately trying to catch up to the Democrat's digital platform and data tools, but are being stymied by a stodgy reputation, and a relatively meager network in Silicon Valley.
Liberty Works is headed by fo[...]

Famed New Yorker writer George Packer wrote a fairly straightforward takedown of Silicon Valley boosterism last week (article is behind paywall), implying that tech titan's attempts at public policy lobbying were amateurish at best, dangerously eliti[...]